Word: hawkish
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...military strategy for the next five years. Its missile-rattling conclusions made front-page headlines in the New York Times just as Ronald Reagan was embarking on a European tour designed to reassure allies who are concerned about the danger of an atomic showdown and Reagan's hawkish instincts. The disclosures undercut a Memorial Day announcement about the beginning of new Soviet-American arms-control talks and served as an unwelcome counterpoint to a sobering report by an international commission on disarmament...
...attack on Argov powerfully reinforced hawkish elements in the Israeli government, while the resolve of Cabinet members had been hesitant to opt for a full-scale strike against P.L.O. bases in Lebanon. Said Yitzhak Moda'i, an Israeli minister without portfolio: "Prolonged restraint costs too much. We must strike at the terrorist" Indeed even before Agrov was shot, Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir had called for "complete elimination of the P.L.O. In the wake of the Argov assassination attempt, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry declared that the ten-month-old cease-fire the was being "permanently violated...
Nacht believes that one of the center's major strengths lies in its political diversity: "We are viewed as quite dovish by the hawks and quite hawkish by the doves. And that, just as much as anything else, is what gives us our credibility...
...sympathy. As a senior British Cabinet member told TIME, "We cannot and will not repeat the ghastly mistake of Sir Anthony Eden at Suez in 1956, when he led Great Britain into war without the backing of America." Of Prime Minister Thatcher, widely known as one of the most hawkish voices in her inner circle, the Cabinet member said that "Margaret's heart may be telling her to leap into the fray, but her head is telling her that you cannot militarily operate in the Southern Hemisphere without U.S. explicit or implicit support...
Advocates of a bilateral nuclear-weapons freeze contend that the plan makes sense, since both the U.S. and the Soviet Union already have large enough arsenals to annihilate each other's populations many times over. Supporters also reject the charge made by hawkish critics that the movement is ultimately a pacifist one that plays into the hands of the Soviets. They point out that the freeze proposal calls for verification. Critics, however, respond by claiming that a freeze on "testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons cannot be verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond...